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SQL script to kill all database processes

This SQL script will silently kill all users connected to a SQL Server database.

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Parthasarathy Mandayam

Published: 21 Oct 2003

I have to restore production copies of my database daily onto development servers. Since the restore process requires exclusive access to the database, I have come up with this nifty SQL script to silently kill all users connected to the database. This procedure kills all database processes before restoring the database so that the restore process gets exclusive access to the database:

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Sam B. writes: I have used this SQL script to create the procedure, successfully, but when I check the syntax of the exec line in Query Analyser I get an error near "Where". I have changed the 'test' to reflect the name of my database but still have no success. Please can you help? I must be missing something obvious!

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